{"id":42331,"date":"2013-11-06T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T01:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/can-the-caribbean-attract-tourists-from-the-brics"},"modified":"2013-11-06T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T01:46:11","slug":"can-the-caribbean-attract-tourists-from-the-brics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/11\/can-the-caribbean-attract-tourists-from-the-brics","title":{"rendered":"Can the Caribbean Attract Tourists From the BRICS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The United States, the United Kingdom and Canada remain the primary source markets for Caribbean tourism \u2014 but with the global tourism market getting more and more competitive, that will likely start to shift in the years to come.<\/p>\n

As more Caribbean countries, out of necessity, look to diversify their origin markets, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa \u201ccontinue to show great potential as new tourism source markets for the Caribbean,\u201d Caribbean Tourism Organization Board of Directors Chairman Chantal Figueroa wrote in a message last week to begin Caribbean Tourism Month.<\/p>\n

The question is how to tap into them.<\/p>\n

For Keith Nurse, a tourism expert and the executive director of the UWI Consulting Company in Jamaica, there are several major challenges in attracting the BRICS \u2014notably airlift and marketing \u2014 but each source market has its own challenges.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the complete article at Caribbean Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexander Britell highlights the challenges facing Caribbean countries in trying to attract tourists from the BRICS ( Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":42486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[153,100,33],"class_list":["post-42331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-business-2","tag-caribbean-2","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}